(Samuel de Champlain era) General name given by French to four Huron tribes, 89.
(1821- ). Born at Amherst, Nova Scotia. Educated at Acadia College, and at Edinburgh. In 1843 graduated M.D., and won the diploma of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. For so...
Engaged in journalism. First elected to the Assembly of Lower Canada, 1810; member of the Legislative Council, 1815. =Index=: (Louis Joseph Papineau era) Accepts Papineau's leaders...
the Universities of London and Glasgow. Emigrated to America; studied at Harvard University, and for a time tutor of Greek in that institution. Came to Canada about 1836, and engag...
Engaged in business pursuits at Oshawa. Defeated for election to the Assembly for South Ontario, 1854, but successful, 1865. Elected to represent South Ontario in the House of Comm...
(Lord Elgin era) Commissioner under Seigniorial Tenure law, 186.
(Bishop Laval era) Hamlet, destruction of, 229. (Count Frontenac era) Massacre of, 251.
city. In 1830 came to Canada; studied law under Robert Baldwin Sullivan, and in 1839 called to the bar of Upper Canada. In 1840 partner of Robert Baldwin, the Reform leader, and bu...
1660. =Index=: (Wilmot era) Annuls charter of London and other towns, 54. =Bib.=: Dict. Nat. Biog.
(Count Frontenac era) Sent to Michilimackinac, 310. (Wolfe / Montcalm era) Goes to island of Orleans to prepare ambuscade, 90; slight success of, 92.
training fitted him for the important role he was to fill in the evolution of ocean shipping. Watched closely the early attempts to cross the Atlantic by steam, and when in 1838 th...
appointed 1771. Returned to England after the Revolutionary War, and in 1786 appointed governor of the Bermudas. =Index=: (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) His letter to Haldimand, 92....
(Lord Sydenham era) Member of Constitutional Association, 112.
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) French vessels retreat to, 152.
(Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Nephew of Sir Frederick Haldimand, 88; his arrival and reception in Boston, 109; promoted, 110, 294; his debts, 312.
(Baldwin / La Fontaine / Hincks era) Construction of, provided for by government in 1841, 98. =Bib.=: Rheaume, Lachine and Origin of its Canal (Women's Can. Hist. Soc. Trans., vol....
(Wolfe / Montcalm era) Takes direction of fireships, 98.
Quebec. Engaged in business as railway contractor. Represented Glengarry in the Assembly of Canada, 1857-1867, and after Confederation in the House of Commons, 1867-1875. Postmaste...
City of Quebec, at the mouth of St. Maurice River. First colonists settled there in 1633; the Jesuits arrived the following year; and the same year a fort was built by Laviolette,...
(Samuel de Champlain era) Name given by Champlain to river St. Maurice, 52.
Complete and entire free trade with the United States, first proposed by Ira Gould, before Montreal Board of Trade, February, 1852. (See Montreal Gazette, Feb. 18-22, 1852.) The qu...
(Sir John A Macdonald era) Rights of American fishermen expire with denunciation of Reciprocity Treaty, 166; the fishermen reluctant to abandon former rights, 167; Canada's exclusi...
In northern British Columbia. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Hudson's Bay Company post, built on Bear Lake, 104.
Charter granted 1834, and renewed 1845. Absorbed by the Grand Trunk in 1882. Ran from Hamilton to the international boundary opposite Detroit. =Index=: (Lord Elgin era) Constructio...
1831, 116; moved forty miles south, 1834, 120. =Bib.=: Walbran, British Columbia Coast Names (under Port Simpson).
(General Brock era) Resolution of Lower Canada Assembly excluding, 104; further discussion of question, 116.
Entree de la Riviere Niagara, dans le fond du Lac Ontario ou est marque la maison a Machicoulis et le fort proposee, 21 Juin 1726; fait a Niagara le Juin 21, 1726. Chaussegros de L...
(Joseph Howe era) Delegate of Nova Scotia Anti-Confederate party to England, to demand repeal of British North America Act, 204; receives thanks of Legislature, 218. =Bib.=: Campbe...
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